Shakespeare's Saddest Sonnet: Understanding Sonnet 64

The video explores Shakespeare's Sonnet 64, highlighting its personal significance to the speaker and its deviation from traditional sonnet norms. It provides a historical overview of sonnet forms, comparing English and Italian styles, and analyzes Sonnet 18 as a classic example. The speaker reinterprets Sonnet 64, suggesting that its lack of resolution reflects the poet's eternal perspective, existing outside of time, and the sadness of witnessing inevitable decay.

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